Chu Gebenshuangang
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This book is a collection of anecdotes and strange events collected from the Bashan and Shu rivers. It uses Xiaoxiang Chu tune as the rhyme and Bashu folk songs as the rhythm, and is laid out in a rich and colorful play. There are fishing fires on the river and Chu songs in the mountains. The book is full of crazy people who wander on the edge of orthodoxy: the witch who sings to summon souls at the ferry, the woodcutter who carves wordless scriptures on the cliff, and the mandrill who touches the hearts of ordinary people with a folk song. Their stories are half rants and half prophecies. They have been circulated for thousands of years in the depths of the mist-shrouded Xiajiang River, and were finally refined and frozen by the author in the form of drama. These chapters transform the bustling crowds at the water pier and the moonlit whispers in the stilted buildings into the beats of gongs, drums and high-pitched voices on the stage. What is sung is about ghosts and gods, but what is shed is the tears of the human world. The almost unbridled infatuation, stubbornness and arrogance, in the unique desolation and fierceness of Chu tune, weave into an inescapable love network. Opening this book is like listening to a great drama across the water on a night boat, filled with smoke and clouds, and singing wildly.
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